The South Australian Political Landscape

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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby dedja » Sun Mar 23, 2014 8:34 pm

Maybe, but the SA Labor party have used up all of these though ...

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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby Jimmy_041 » Sun Mar 23, 2014 9:25 pm

Liberals wont win next election either
In fact, I reckon the statewide vote will reverse to 52 - 48 for Labor
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby dedja » Sun Mar 23, 2014 9:37 pm

Well, with 'friends' like Bernardi, Abbott and Pyne, you may well be right ... :lol:
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby Jimmy_041 » Sun Mar 23, 2014 9:44 pm

I can see Labor's cunning plan now
52% of SA's eligible voters will be public servants :Hangman:
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby dedja » Sun Mar 23, 2014 10:10 pm

Time to give MHS another go ... or maybe Iain Evans (Bob Such says hello), wait ... or Vickie Chapman ... no, no, bring Izzy back ... oh shit, faarked if I know :-??
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby Roxy the Rat Girl » Sun Mar 23, 2014 10:14 pm

dedja wrote:Time to give MHS another go ... or maybe Iain Evans (Bob Such says hello), wait ... or Vickie Chapman ... no, no, bring Izzy back ... oh shit, faarked if I know :-??


Vicki's turn :roll:
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby Jimmy_041 » Sun Mar 23, 2014 11:25 pm

Time I took over Bragg
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby dedja » Sun Mar 23, 2014 11:27 pm

or Sturt ...
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby Jimmy_041 » Sun Mar 23, 2014 11:28 pm

Either......
A good start to my political career - taking over a marginal seat
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby bennymacca » Sun Mar 23, 2014 11:39 pm

If you ran in my electorate jimmy, I would definitely vote you.


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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby Jimmy_041 » Sun Mar 23, 2014 11:45 pm

I think I could count on you being in the 20% that wouldn't vote me if you lived in my electorate benny
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby Roxy the Rat Girl » Mon Mar 24, 2014 7:23 am

Take on a marginal Jimmy. Winning would be far more exhilarating and satisfying.
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby Dogwatcher » Mon Mar 24, 2014 8:22 am

DECISION IN THE BEST INTEREST OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Labor to form minority government with support of
independent Geoff Brock

The decision made by Geoff Brock to support a minority Labor Government
yesterday, he believes, will deliver the most stable Government possible, given
the current situation.
“My heart is dedicated to regional South Australia.” Over the past week Geoff
has been contacted by Mayor’s of Councils across the State. Their message was
clear, please consider us in any decision you make.
Geoff sought broad consultation with five regional councils CEO’s and Mayor’s
in his Electorate of Frome, The Local Government Association, the Grain Industry,
Primary Producers, Licensed Clubs SA, South Australian Council of Social Service
and several other associations.
Leading up to the weekend both Bob Such and Geoff Brock were
communicating freely, hoping to achieve unity on their decision. However, on
Saturday morning information was received that Bob Such had suddenly taken ill
and was hospitalised, rendering him unavailable for his parliamentary duties for
2-3 months. This placed the onus back on Geoff Brock to make the hardest
decision of his political career.
In the scenario of 23 seats won by each party, the State Government would
continue to be in Caretaker Mode for possibly 2 – 3 months waiting for Bob Such
to return to office. If that were to happen, long delays in decision making could
result in unfair increases in costs to our already burgeoning Business Community
of South Australia.
With this weighing heavily on his mind combined with a huge number of calls
requesting support, Geoff has made a decision, that he believes will deliver the
most stable Government possible.
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby mighty_tiger_79 » Mon Mar 24, 2014 9:00 am

gotta love Marshall and Pyne crying about being more popular and Labor don't have a mandate to govern.

re - john howard 1998 - springs to mind.


I didn't expect labor to win, really not many people did and that is where the libs faarked it up. they made a mess of the campaign.

in hindsight, would the Libs have performed better if Downer was the leader or was the campaign that bad that he wouldn't have done any better???
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby bennymacca » Mon Mar 24, 2014 9:52 am

he certainly has a bigger public profile, maybe would have cut through a lot more.

marshall just didnt inspire me with a single thing he said.
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby Jimmy_041 » Mon Mar 24, 2014 10:08 am

Roxy the Rat Girl wrote:Take on a marginal Jimmy. Winning would be far more exhilarating and satisfying.


I intend turning either Bragg or Sturt into a marginal so our vote actually counts for something
We've had it too easy for the past few years
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby Jimmy_041 » Mon Mar 24, 2014 10:23 am

Geoff Brock was on 891 this morning: very unconvincing.
He couldn't stick to the script Weatherill had given him (Weatherill did and double spoke everything)
Geoff Brock "doesn't want to politicise the Nyrstar transformation project" yet put it on the table to both parties and got bought by Weatherill
Marshall said he'd speak to the Federal Govt over the weekend, but Weatherill has guaranteed that they (we) will pick up any shortfall
Weatherill says the project is all OK yet Briggs says its far from a done deal
This is going to get messy................................................
Weatherill refused to say what this deal is going to cost (us)

No doubt Brock had no choice, but I'm not sure he's up for this. Such certainly isn't.
I look forward to Jay "standing up to Tony Abbott", whilst having his beggar's hand out, in his first month
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby Dogwatcher » Mon Mar 24, 2014 10:30 am

I will be very surprised if we see out a full term.
Brock did appear out of his depth.

However, Marshall needs to find another strategy other than the battering ram used by the Abbott Opposition during the Rudd/Gillard tenure in the federal sphere, it's not in him and I'm not sure it's in any of his parliamentary core - they'll get torn apart by Koutsantonis.
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby Roxy the Rat Girl » Mon Mar 24, 2014 10:42 am

Jimmy_041 wrote:Geoff Brock "doesn't want to politicise the Nyrstar transformation project" yet put it on the table to both parties and got bought by Weatherill
Marshall said he'd speak to the Federal Govt over the weekend, but Weatherill has guaranteed that they (we) will pick up any shortfall
Weatherill says the project is all OK yet Briggs says its far from a done deal
This is going to get messy................................................
Weatherill refused to say what this deal is going to cost (us)


I agree Jimmy, I'd imagine the Feds are not going to give over large sums of infrastructure investment to the only Labor run state in the country, especially the tight fisted mob in Canberra at the moment. It is a big call from Labor to to say they will pick up any shortfall without knowing what that shortfall might be.
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Re: The South Australian Political Landscape

Postby heater31 » Mon Mar 24, 2014 10:55 am

First problem Jay has is how is he funding the Torrens Rd end of South Rd upgrade? Tony isn't going to hand over the cash when he had stated the Darlington end was first up.


This is going to be a mess :roll:
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